Dan Jaffe making traditional quill pens from goose feather some time ostrich or peacock are used in Devon
Authentic Hand Cut Quill Pens. Quill pens were the most important writing tools over the last two thousand years and they were only gradually replaced by steel nib pens mass-produced in the mid-nineteenth century. Dan Jaffe is one of the last Feather Quill Pen makers in the country, working in his family business at Axminster in Devon. ” My family have been dealing in feathers for three generations, supplying the millinery and fashion trade, with Ostrich and Peacock feathers for making quills is just part of the business. Goose feather’s are used for pen’s. “ The earliest use of the quill pen is difficult to establish but they were probably in use in Roman times alongside metal and reed pens. “ so says Dan. as he cut a new quill, with a fine knife .Going on to say. “ Certainly by the 6th, 7th and 8th centuries the quill pen was commonly employed by the church scribes. The quill pen owed its dominance over all other writing implements to the unusual combination of hardness, flexibility and structure found only in the feather quill.”
Size: 5150px × 3433px
Location: Jaffe et fils Ltd at Axminster Devon England Great Britain UK
Photo credit: © paul felix craftsmen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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